Tuberculosis
Purchase District Health Department supports World TB Day on March 24. The theme of this day is TB Elimination: Together We Can!. To learn more about World TB Day efforts, please click on the following link.
In 2014, 9.6 million people around the world became sick with TB disease. There were 1.5 million TB-related deaths worldwide. TB is a leading killer of people who are HIV infected. A total of 9,421 TB cases (a rate of 2.96 cases per 100,000 persons) were reported in the United States in 2014.
What Is Tuberculosis or TB?
Tuberculosis is an airborne disease, which primarily affects the lungs but can also affect other organs. People who are infected with TB are not contagious until their infection develops into active TB disease.
The Purchase District Health Department carries out tuberculosis control activities under the guidance of the Kentucky Tuberculosis Control program. The goals of this program are to (1) render and maintain as non-infectious all persons with TB disease, (2) ensure non-infected persons do not become infected, and (3) ensure that individuals who are infected but don’t have TB disease remain non-infectious. Purchase District Health Department works toward accomplishing these goals through TB control activities in our community. These control activities include, but are not limited to, TB testing, TB assessment, disease surveillance, and administration/observation of drug therapies.
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